Death of W P Morgan

Walter P. Morgan, for nearly thirty years, in the employ of the Wabash railway company, died of blood poisoning, at his home on East North street. Saturday night at 11:30, after a short illness, at the age of fifty two years. He was passenger conductor on the St. Louis branch, and was on his train when he was taken sick.

Deceased was born at Stonington, New London county, Connecticut, on February 5th, 1837. He came with his parents to Illinois in 1839 and settled with a colony of people at Stonington, Ill. After reading there for a few years he removed with his parents to Springfield, where he resided until he moved to Decatur in 1883.

He leaves a wife and four children, Charles E, Ella, Horace and Grace his mother, three brothers and two sisters survive him. They are Horace, George and Albert Morgan, Mrs A E Kinney and Mrs C A Taylor. A host of friends will mourn his death.

source: Labor Bulletin.
location: Decatur, Illinois